“If man lives without truth, life passes him by: ultimately he surrenders the field to whoever is the stronger…. In Christ, God entered the world and set up the criterion of truth in the midst of history. Truth is outwardly powerless in the world, just as Christ is powerless by the world’s standards: he has no legions; he is crucified. Yet in his very powerlessness, he is powerful: only thus, again and again, does truth become power.” – Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol II, p. 194.

“I would rather a spirit without prayer than one that has not begun to walk in truth.” — St. Teresa of Jesus (Life, 13.16)